Ring sizing tool



Sept. 2, 1952 E. F. KIRKwooD 2,608,748

RING sIzING Tool.

.f Filed may 15, 1948 digg l I. limi,

2 INVENTOR.

E F.' .l//RK w00@ Patented Sept. 2, 1952 UNITED *s.,'frrrrts`.s PATENT RrNG sIzING 'rooL y A ErsclF. Kirkwood, Salem, Oreg.l n Application May 15, 1948, Serial No. 27,251

. I l 1 This invention relates to improvements in ring cutting tools and it has reference more particularly to a'device whereby a finger ring maybe easily and accurately cut as vmay berequired for sizing` it; that is, for making it of smaller or of larger ring size.

It is the principal object of my invention to provide a hand tool designed for accomplishing the above stated cutting operation, that will'hold the ring secure while a cut is being made and will so hold it relative to the cutting blade that the cut will be made in a plane that is exactly in the radial axial plane of the ring and will insure that the ends of the band that are to bejoined together after a piece has been cut out, can be brought flatly together in -a perfect yjoint for soldering. v

It is also an object of my invention tovprovide a ring cutting tool of the above stated character in the general form vof a pair of hand pliers and wherein the cutting tool comprises -a saw blade attached to one of the jaw portions of the tool, and formed with cutting teeth that have such denite and lpredetermined spacing that, by reason ofthe manner of mounting the blade and its mode of operation, they will successively pass through the ring and each willclear itself from the ring before the other enters.

It is also an object of my invention to provide a cutting tool equipped with opposedly .related jaws, one of which is equipped to locate and retain the ring in place for the cutting operation, and the other mounts the saw. Furthermore, a tool wherein the ring retaining means is in the nature of abutments against which the ring is disposed and which are calibrated in a manner that makes possible an easy and quick setting or placing of the ring for cutting out portions therefrom that will reduce the ring by definite ring sizes.

Still further objects of the invention reside in details of construction and combination of parts embodied in the device and in their inode of operation, as will hereinafter be fully described.

In accomplishing these andother objects of the invention, I have provided the improved details of construction, the preferred forms of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a ring cutting tool embodying the improvements of the present invention therein, and showing the manner of applying a ring thereto for cutting. v

Fig. 2 is an enlarged plan, or inner face view, of the ring holding jaw of the cutting tool.

z claims. (o1. :as-75) Fig. 3 isa side view of the jawportions of the tool as closed together.

Fig. 4 is a detail of jaw portions of a ring cutting tool showing an Yalternative Vmethod of mounting the bIadeL'parts ofthel jaws being broken away for better/-understanding.k Referring more in detalto the' drawings: The present tool, in its preferredformof construction as shown in Figfl; is :of pliers form, in that it comprises v two crossed and pivotally joined levers equipped with handle grip'portions I and 2 that have end'portions thereof fitted and joined by'a pivot Lbolt or pin 3.. The levers are extended beyondthe pivot 3 as opposedly related jaws 4 and 5, and these may be opened apart or clamped together by similar action of the handle portions I andZ. To facilitate the opening of the jaws. a leaf spring 8 is fixed to the inside of one of the handle portions, as by means of a screw 9 shown in Fig. l, and has a free end .portion disposed to yieldingly bear against the opposite handle, thus to urge the handle members apart and, in this way, to urge the jaws toward open position 4as in Figs. land 4.

In the showing of partsin the present drawing, the lower jaw Ilii's designated as the ring holding jaw. It is .providedv along its outer end portion with a longitudinal slot I0, and at the endof the jaw, at'opposite sides of the slot, are upstanding abutments I I-I I?, the inner surfaces of which are of cylindrical curvature as noted as I2 in Fig. 2. Thesesurfaces are perpendicular to the face of the jaw'from which they extend and the center of curvature is .in the line of the slot I0. so that when a ring of normal size is applied to the jaw, as indicatedin Fig: A2, the inner surface of the band .may be caused to engage flatly again'stfthesurfaces of cylindrical curvature of both abutments.'

The band cutting^blade I5 comprises a at pieceor plate of suitablel metal, fixed at one end in the'upper jaw by suitable means, for example, by means of'stud-s orl pins I6 as noted in Figs. 1 and 3. Preferably the upper, or mounting end of the blade I5 is disposed in 'a longitudinal slot I1 in the jaw 5, and the lower end portion of the blade is reciprocally contained in the slot II of the lowerV jaw. The blade metal is preferably quite thin; therefore, to give the blade required', strength and stiffness. a back bar I8 is fixed thereto. This bar is arcuately curved about the axial center of pivot pin 3 and is reciprocally contained in a guide opening 20 in the lower jaw. The outer edge of the blade is equipped with cutting teeth 22, spaced 'a distance from each To use the tool, assuming iti tobe constructed as above described, the ring that is to be out,

designated at R in Figs. 1, 2 and 4, is placedv against the lower jaw. to extend in a plane that i coincides with the plane of the inner surface of the jaw, with the inside surface of the ring or band drawn against the cylindrically curved inside surfaces I2 of the two abutments lI--l I.l

Then by means of the handle members, l and. 2,*

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close iitting joint suitable for soldering and the finished joint cannot be detected. Sizing oi rings is made easy and with accuracy.

Changes in size and proportion of parts may be made. to meet various requirements or conditions, without departing from the spirit of the invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new therein and desire to secure by l; A ringsi'zing tool of the character 'described comprising a pair of crossed and pivotally joined handle levers, terminating in opposedly related Vupper and lower jaws that are movable toward the jaws 4 and 5 are actuated from open positiontoward each other. This brings the toothed edge of the saw blade l5 against the band, as in Fig. 4, and with the farther closingof the jaws causes the teeth 22, in succession, to kout throughI the band; each toothdeepening thel out until the band is completely severed..

To make possible an easy measuring of the length. of a section-to. be removed from a'band, have placed marks, as .at 25 in Fig.- 2, on the end suriaceso'f the abutmentsl l-l I; ,these'marks being spaced laterally a distance equal to one ring size from the plane of .thejcut to be made by `a blade. Thunfif a vbandisto be decreased by one ring size, it is rst cut through-at a select',-A

ed place and thenturnedto. a'position at'which the out is registered or aligned withone 'of 'the marks'25g, Then a second .cut ismade. I This will cutfrornA the `band aV` section equalk to one ring size. Sections of lesser' or. greater length are judged accordingly by referenceto these size calibrations on the abutments..

in Fig. 4, I have illustratedanjaiternative iorm of construction using exactly thesame form'of handle and jaw construction as. abovedescribed but wherein the saw blade'! is pivoted for lim*- ited oscillating movement alongthe .j aw .slot l0. This manner Aoli-mounting? is "accomplished by means of a pivot pin V3l) .passed directly through the jaw and one corner of theblade. The other corner of the blade has a-pinand slot connection with the jaw as '2115.31 that permits thelimted oscillatingV action of the blade so that its free end may swing toward or from the abutment. In this case the guideopening ct is somewhat elongated along thejaw. On thelower jaw, =a leaf spring 32- is secured byf screw 33. in position to press'outwardly against: the back bar l8r of the blade to vyieldi-ngly urge it againstV the band R as applied to the jaws-for cutting. Ailrrthis blade, 15x, the teeth may be lspaced asinft-hegdevlceoi Fig. 1 or closer as may-bezdesireds- The advantages of tools of this particular type, made according to Figs. 1 or f1, reside in thefact that the cut'through-the band will always be clean cut and exactly in the lradialaxial plane of the band. Therefore, the ends. at opposite sides of a cut may be brought flatly together' in a and from each other with the closing and opening action of the handle levers, an abutment extended upwardly from the inner face of the lower jaw at the end thereof, against which that part of a ring through which a cut is to be made may be engaged to hold it for the cutting operation, and there being. a longitudinal slot in the 4lower jaw, passing-throughV the abutment, a flat 'saw blade pivotally xed' to the upper jaw and reciprocally contained in the-slot at the inside of the abutment and having a'lo'ngitudinal, toothed edge that, with the closing movement of the jaws willengage'with that part=of the ring disposed against the lower jaw and abutment to progressivelyout therethrough toward the abutment.

2. A ring sizing tool of the character described comprising a pair of crossed and pivotally joined hand levers terminating in opposedly related upper land lower jaws that are movable toward and fromeach other'with the .closing and opening action ofthe handle levers, anjabutment'formed on the inner` face of the lower jaw; and said jaw having a slot formed longitudinally therein and extending through the abutment, a'iia-t saw blade fixed at one end in the upper jaw and extending reoiprocally through the slot of' the lower jaw. and' having a toothed longitudinal outer edge adapted, `enclosing of thefjaws from an open position; to move in cutting oontactwith va ring that may be disposed against the said abutment; said blade being pivotally Vfixed to .the upper jaw iorzoscillatingaction in the guide slot, a spring xed toa jaw and bears against the blade to urge it toward the abutment, and the blade havingthe teeth thereofspaced at such distance therealong that each will form its out across the ring before the next tooth starts its cutting operation.

ERSEL F. KIRKWOOD.

` REFERENCES errno The following references are vof record in the iile'of this patent: l Y Y UNITED sfraras PATENTS Number l `Baumann 4' Feb. 4, 

